Re: Launching a new browser window

From: Jim Reardon <jim_at_amusive.com>
Date: Tue 06 Feb 2001 15:22:46 -0600

ILONA JERABEK <ilona_at_queendom.com> WROTE:
> I saw this topic, just as I am struggling with a
> decision about target="_blank". I my case, it's not
> just for advertising (although we are considering that
> too), but also for practical reasons. When people
> take a personality or IQ test on our site, we offer
> them a number of links to various resources directly
> from the results page (which is dynamically generated).
> To prevent loss of their results, I would like to
> launch a new window when they click on one of the links
> (many lead to other pages on our site). This would be
> especially helpful from framed pages, especially
> member areas where they need ot log in.

I think what the initial discussion was about would be
auto-spawning the new browser window. I have one on
my site, actually, which pops up as a user leaves; but
this is done only once per visitor.

As for spawning a new browser for following links,
depending on your situation often users see this as an
advantage. Download sites and test sites add benefit
if it's easy to visit a test and come back. Personally
when following links I typically open them in new
browser windows anyway, and know a lot of other people
that do as well.

> Now the problem is this: I may be wrong, but I think
> that at some point, AOL was blocking this command, so
> none of the AOL users was able to get through to the
> linked content. Is this still true?

If it was once true, it isn't anymore. I used AOL a
bit ago (the newest version) and it had no problem
with _blank and _top tags.

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